Im here for cal fox of the tertenderloin housing clinic. Im here for the tenants upstairs. Spoon they have been tenants f9 years and unlike the characterizizatiocharacterizatit seems like a nice guy, we had the opposite impression. They hathe showers were water w. This work being proposed would reconfigure the units, not just expand, so there is no effort to keep the tenants in. Whether or not theres been an implication of a notice of termination is not the point here. Were in the present. This is their longterm home. The work thats being done is purely elective and cosmetic and intended probably to quadruple the value of the property, not only by creating more size but by getting rid of the longterm tenants. This would eliminate the backyard which is part of the very, very limited open space. They have a dog that uses the backyard. There is very limited space in San Francisco and throughout the Mission District. Its so concrete and steel. This is one of the few places where they can go out and enjoy the sun and light and let me just ask. speaking Foreign Language . Im the daughter of a deceased person who meant so much to me. That is my father. Who is supposed to be the head of the household, right . And we hit rock bottom because were just getting hit left and right with these new oppositions about new improvements to the house. Yes, they are needed, but theyre asking us to be displaced permanently and where will we go . We havent discussed where to move. How were going to continue on while im still in school and employed. Im looking for someone to work. Its very hard. But it was just a matter of time when they say its time to go. So in a nutshell, they work will result in the displacement of people that are already in a crisis because of the premature deaths of the father, husband, and then its like that Carlos Santana letter, where it says come home and whats their letter saying, get out of here. So we ask you to please deny this permit application and not issue a permit thats going to unnecessarily get rid of longterm tenants. Thank you. So we will take a Public Comment in support of the dr requester. My name is steven booth with the tenderloin housing clinic. This is maria and shes lived in this property for 38 years and raised a family there and she continues to be a part of the very fabric of this neighborhood. Her doctor is three blocks away that she can walk to wherever she needs to. She shops on 24th street and knows the neighbors there and is virtually a part of the fabric of this community. This project makes no provision for her. Her story is quintessentially an american story. She umgreated from el salvador and in the Mission District for 50 years, got married in San Francisco, worked at the st. Francis hotel for about 40 areas. Shes supported this community and part of it for a long time. What youre asked to do is to authorize a permit which essentially allow for a dream of profit in the future by a real estate speculator and do we support that dream or do we support the American Dream which this is an example of the American Dream. She came here, worked hard, is has been here all her life and will be excluded from the mission. Also with her today is pedro rote, her son, who his formative years were spent in that home. The home is still the center of the she has three sons, an extended family, grandchildren and they come to visit her on holidays and this is really her pricplace and her community. I also want to say that the landlords attitude to her has not been friendly or kind. In the very beginning, they tried to trick her by saying, well pay you a paltry amount if you leave and then told her she had to leave in six months. Three times they shut off the water and she wasnt able to bathe, clean dishes and they will build a taj mahal. Any other public support in request oresponse to the dr req . Im greg smith, the architect for this project. The owner would like to add vertically up and down to each unit, creating from what is a tworoom, plus a culture, a twobedroom and the same footprint and not expanding up and down. So what the owner is trying to do is make family use fit units preferable over oneperform units and thats what were trying to do. Youll turn it over to the own owner. Im neil aton, im the owner and so my wife and i live a few blocks from the property with our young family. Were not looking to profit from this development but live in this development. Ed takeweve ended up with this confrontation with the tenant tenantsand the communication ive had has been clear that theres no real room for negotiation. What i heard back was the only way that they would not file a dr request is if the tenant were never disturbed. Bringing this up to standards is not possible. To respond to the character characterizations is evil landlords, turning off water, trying to trick elderly ladies into leaving their home is completely false and inaccurate. Water was turned off during repairs and there were issues getting it on. This happened over the weekend and we had to call the first available plumber to come on sunday morning. The other issues that miss miranda ref dens referenced aboe water being shut off, thats new to me. In terms of the issues mentioned by the downstairs tenants, any nobody communicates with me any issues. After we filed eviction notice, there was retaliation in terms of complaints of the Building Department which had been depth with or had been dealt with and as soon as we heard from them and so, unfortunately, weve ended up in this scenario and this is the only property that i own in anyplace. Weve lived in the mixe missionr five years and hopefully well live here for a long time to come and ill leave it at that. Thank you for your time. Do we have any Public Comment in support of the project sponsor . With that, you have a two minute rebuttal . You get two more minutes. Commissioner johnson. Where do i begin . This is not the first time weve heard a case like this, in which there are tenants who are in danger of being rent evicted out of a property. To all of the folks who cal camt and who had to go through the struggle of coming here and sharing your story, i say thank you. And you shouldnt have go through this. I think we as a commission have again and again and again stated that if a project comes to us, we are not comfortable with rent rent evictions and certainly a plan in place of how people will be moved and put back into the units is the bare minimum and then we have serious concerns and want to go through it with a fine tooth comb. So im a little disappointed that this is here. There is no way i could support this project at all. So i would take dr and not approve and would love to hear what other commissioners have to say. I second that motion. Commissioner moore . Mr. Winslow read into the description of this case and suddenly suggested indeed the applicant had not provided any kind of mediating suggestions of what to do with the tenants. The owner stands in front of us without acknowledging the problem is difficult and makes me feel very uncomfortable to hear this project. So the rules surrounding these particular cases in the city are very well published and wellknown and i am actually quite speechless. Speechless to hear an applicant coming forward with as many tenants in the building and kind of, really, at least im sorry to say that seeming oblivious to the problem hes creating. I have to say that because we are very fair and patient, week in, week out, year in and year out, to see these cases piling up and to sit here with no acknowledgement of the problem is, frankly, shocking to me. And just as commissioner johnson very skillfully summarized her feelings, i would second your thoughts. Commissioner richards. Miss fever, please, what estrucevictions have been filed . Im not sure. You should ask the attorney. Miss fox, do you know. Will you please speak into the microphone. They have filed notices of templtermination and we intend o challenge that when the notices expire. Ok, thank you. I mean, i echo my fellow commissioners. You already live in the mission and thats great. Youre a part of the community. You bought a building that had People Living in it who are also a part of the community. For you to continue to live in the mission, these other members of the community are going to be thrown out into the street. Thats heartless. If i could put a notice of special restriction that you could never expand your building on your building because of what youre doing, i would, but i cant. But ill remember this address and i hope that it gets dred again. I cant support a project like this. Theres a motion seconded to take dr and disapprove and i would recommend that you articulate findings for mr. Winslow to add to the dr action memo. And i hope that it gets dred for discretionary reviews, you dont. We sat through a presentation that took two years of staff work to come up with strategies on community stabilization, on preservation of housing, on all of the resources that the city is spending to make this happen and that surely can be a finding. So i am i think that prevention of homelessness, community stabilization, some stuff about map 2020, the preservation of housing, the tenants are folks who are older. Theyre also protected tenants under the rentcontrol law and there are things we could state as findings. Commissioner richards . Hardship due to loss of family members, extra stress of Young Persons still going to school and in the middle of loss of a father, you think that there are millions of arguments, particularly after we spend listeningy time, as you mentioned on the community stablization act today. If i could property you to also include one of the issues brought forth was the expansion doubling the size, automatically increases the affordability, inaffordability of this. Commissioners richards . So at my first confirmation hearing before the rules committee, i mentioned Hershey Chocolate company because they bought Joseph Schmidt with the intent of not wanting him to compete with them, so they bought the business and shut it down. You bought a business, which is is Housing Provider business, using the ellis fact and youre shutting it down for your own gain. When we started this hearing, i mentioned to some people, we have to go to the state and senator weiner and assemblyman chu and get them to do ellis act reform, there has to be a spectator tax on profit. This is what were looking at right now and thats my last two cents. Im flummoxed. Thank you for those findings to disapprove, role call . So moved, commissioners and that motion passed 50. Were now adjourned. For the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat to the public right off their boats in San Francisco. Its not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but its evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. But how is it regulated . And what does it take for a boat to be transported into a Floating Fish market . Find out as we hop on board on this episode of whats next sf. Were here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. Its no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because its doing just that. Its the first boat in San Francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. How did you establish your boat into such a Floating Fish market . Well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. When you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. So being able to do this is really its a big positive thing i think for the entire community. A very positive thing. As a thirdgeneration fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. Since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. Right now were just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. So we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. Theres the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. And then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. Joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. We had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. Its incredible. I know, its hard to imagine. But this wasnt always the case for joe. The markets that we have left in california, theyre few and far between, and they really are restrictive. Theyll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. A lot of times its rough weather and if you cant make your delivery you will lose your rotation. Thats why theres hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. My boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldnt do anything with it because we had no market. The ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldnt take them off your boat. That was until the Port Commission of San Francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a Pilot Program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. The purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall Fishing Community at the port of San Francisco. We have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. Crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on Taylor Street and jefferson street. So this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. Its to basically to lift up the whole industry together. And if joe the program has been doing just that. It was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. And that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. Once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. Because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from San Francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. Because we really didnt think or know that wed get such a positive response from the public. And so were getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so thats pretty cool. They like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. And when they come down here the one thing that they say is that theyre so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and its still fresh all week in the refrigerator. So thats really cool. The fish is very fresh and the price is super. I dont think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. I can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. I just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. This Program Supports the Strategic Plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. Because its helping the fishermen to make ends meet. They have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. How does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did . When i was a kid and i used to work in my dads fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. So i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l. A. So its kind of cool that were still dealing with the same families. And this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. One of the advantages of this program is the Department People that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. The feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. And theres a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. In fact, theres people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at whats happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. So its generated some conversation down at the wharf and thats a good thing. As you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the Pilot Program has been a huge success. For more information visit sfsport. Com. I pledge a llegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Before i ask for the roll call, the fans are on for a couple reasons. The building engineer is in route but not here yet. Please be prepared to speak louder cheese are all recorded both audio and video. Please speak louder today. The next genral item now before roll call is item 13 is pulled. It shall not be discussed today. We will notify people in advance before that comes ba